Fraud

Russian hackers and trolls received all the media attention but China and Venezuela were the sources of the most overseas e-commerce fraud attacks in 2017, according to new Experian data. Millions of online transactions were analyzed to identify fraud attacks on online transactions across the U.S for the 2017 E-commerce Fraud report. Online shopping fraud attacks rose 30% in 2017 vs. 2016, and transactions originating from a foreign Internet Protocol (IP) address were about 7 times riskier than average. An IP address is a unique set of numbers used to identify individual digital devices, allowing them to communicate with other devices on a network.